The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-02
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Gray and stone color is a new OOmbi,

GRAY and stone color is new combi-
nation
Poplin is revived, It is used for dra-
peries over velvet skirts.
White dresses for children are of
camcPs hair or cashmere.
Mrs. Mary Peasants (colored), of San
Francisco, is worth $3.50, 600.
Passementerie and plush ribbon are ac-
cessories for tulle evening dresses.
Suede or white cloth vests are used in
red, heliotrope or green cloth gowns.
Mrs. Cleveland is an active member Of
the Horsewoman's Club of Washington.
At the Univerity of Zurich, Switzer-
land ten per cent of the students are
ladies.
Crosswise draperies are the distin-
gushing feature of the new French Co.'S
| Tunes
Mary Hooper, Cleveland servant girl,
has inherited $3.50, 600 from relative in
Philadelphia.
Frocks of plain material have cuffs and
epaulets of plaid, and the overskirt is
lined with plaid.
1t is announced that Empress Augusta
of Germany will visit Queen Victoria in
the coming spring.
Queen Victoria's dessert service of old
/ Sevres--the finest In the worlds
valued at $3.50, 900.
Chinchilla, silver fox and badger fur
and grebe skins are employed for trim
ming evening dresses.
Low bodices have no sleeves, but sim
ply strap or epaulet embellished with
/ flowers or bows of ribbon.
Lace is driving out frilling in Eng
land, and Honiton factories are turning
out all they can, while more is wanted.
Sleeves are placed very high upon the
bodice, and have only enough fulness to
adapt them to the shape ofthe shoulder.
High velvet bands or short loops of
ribbon are taking the place of soft tuck
ers and frillings for the throat and
wrists.
Collars of dresses are sometimes
trimmed to resemble a necklace, with
embroidery and drops of jet or old
silver.
Small fir cones, pierced and finished
with bead at each end, are, it is said,
to be used as finish for the brims of
hats and bonnets
Swans down is used for trimming the
collars and cuffs of children's white
frocks. Velvet of bright tint is also used
for the same purpose.
Polonaises of graceful and simple
shapes will be made of cloth, and worn
over plaid or blocked velvet or plush
skirts of contrasting color.
French miliners are using tulle upon
winter bonnets, in combination with
velvet and plush. White lace is also
much used for like purposes.
Tulle Russo, new yelling net, is a
square meshed, very open lace, having
dots very nearly square in shape. 1t is
shown in all the popular colors.
aESkirts this season show but little full.
ness over the hips, the small paniers seen
on the French dresses being cut true to
the figure, in no way enlarging it.
Some of the new hats make the wearer
/, appear as if she were going to market
with fat bird on her head, after the
manner of the West Indian negroes.
Vests, plastrons, separate waistcoats,
: plated shoulders, the surplice front
ldDp6u W Jll6 l6lJ Slu6 duu T6NeTS OF all
, kinds are seen on the newest French
dresses.
Some of the new muffs have an entire
bird of large size for ornament The eff
feet is not pleasant; it is as if the wearel
were engaged in a struggle to keep the
creature from getting away. Usually the
hat corresponds, and the bird thereon
! seems as if ready to swoop down and
take part in the fray.
!, The Prussian State railways have fol
some time past employed women as
guards at crossings The work consists
chiefly of the closing and opening of the
/, bars and the lighting and sweeping Of
crossings, and the women in most cases
are either the wives or widows of guards
, Their pay is from twelve to twenty cent
? per day.
, The latest importation of bonnets ar,
combinations of velvet with fur of a lik,
/ shade, the fur being used upon the brim
2 and the velvet for the oddly-shapeC
E crown. Marie Stuart brims, much modi
fed in shape, are shown in some o
f these, and the whole bonnet is mucl
smaller than the comfortable ones worl
year ago.